Instrumentation industry trends in the first half of the year

The instrumentation industry has shown rapid development in recent years. A statistical data from the China Instrument and Meter Association indicated that the production and sales of China's instrumentation industry continued to rise after rising at a high rate of two years. In the first half of 2007, the total output value of China's instrumentation industry was 133.5 billion yuan, an increase of 29.1% year-on-year; the sales revenue of products was 1289. Billion yuan, a year-on-year increase of 30.7%, all at historically high levels; profits increased by more than 40% year-on-year, total assets increased by about 18% year-on-year, and the industry as a whole is in a healthy development phase.

In the first half of the year, the demand structure of the three major specialty products has changed significantly. There are many products in the field of instrumentation, industrial automation instrumentation and control systems are still higher than the growth rate of the whole industry, and the growth in production and sales is 34%, reflecting that China is still in the period of high-speed development of energy and heavy chemical industry, but the increase rate is 38% higher than the previous year. The decline shows that structural adjustments in thermal power, metallurgy and other applications have had an impact. Environmental monitoring instruments increased by 40% year-on-year, reflecting the demand for related instruments for environmental governance, energy saving and emission reduction. Optical instruments, supply instruments, testing machines, geological exploration and special instruments for earthquakes, teaching instruments and other products maintained an average increase in the industry. Electrical instrumentation, surveying and mapping instruments, test and analysis instruments, automotive instrumentation, navigation, meteorological marine instruments, nuclear measurement instruments, electronic measuring instruments, timing instruments, weighing instruments, medical instruments, etc., are lower than the industry average, and the demand for some products is stable. The production capacity is too large; some products have large technological gaps, and the middle-to-high end product market is occupied by imported products, and the problem of structural adjustment is obvious.

The location changed quietly. Beijing, Tianjin, Shanghai, and other major cities were once the birthplace and concentration area of ​​China's instrumentation industry. They have good conditions and are among the best in the long term. With the changes in regional industrial structure, although the foundation is good but the growth is not fast, in the first half of this year, it was about 10%. The scale of production and sales in Beijing and Shanghai has already relegated to the fifth and sixth place in the country. The Soviet Union, Guangdong, Zhejiang, and Shandong are among the top, and the output value has surpassed Beijing and Shanghai. Jiangsu and Guangdong provinces have gathered foreign capital. The instrumentation industry accounts for a relatively large proportion, and has leapt to the first and second place in the instrumentation industry in China. In recent years, private enterprises in Zhejiang have developed rapidly and have formed regional industrial clusters. The large quantity of products with a wide range of products forms large-scale production, and it also has a model of industrialization of high-tech achievements, ranking third in the country.

Instrumentation breakthroughs in major projects export growth, import growth is small. In the first half of the year, China's instrumentation industry increased exports by 36.4%. Industrial automation instrumentation systems, electronic measuring instruments, testing machines, laboratory analysis instruments, medical instruments, and other export growth rates were all above 40%. Industrial automation instruments and electronic measurements that had not been exported in the past were large. The increase in instrumentation was as high as 76.9% and 104.5%, respectively, and some products such as pressure/differential pressure transmitters, semiconductor component testing and communication instruments, precision balances, spectrophotometers, and X-ray inspection instruments have multiplied. In traditional export products, electricity meters, gas meters, optical components, telescopes, microscopes, thermometers, etc. did not increase significantly except for the 65.5% increase in water meters. The increase in imports has dropped to 7.2%. Optical instruments, most electrical instrumentation, and medical instruments have turned negative.

What is particularly encouraging is that the decentralized control system, as an important product of the instrumentation industry, continues to make breakthroughs in key national projects. In January 2007, the decentralized control system developed by Beijing Guodian Zhiyuan Co., Ltd. was successfully put into operation at the 600MW subcritical unit of Longshan Power Plant, Hebei Province, and it entered commercial operation; in August 2007, it was also a 600MW supercritical unit in Liaoning Zhuanghe Power Plant. Put into operation successfully. Zhejiang Zhonghua’s decentralized control system with independent intellectual property rights successfully bid for the 300,000 T synthetic ammonia/520000 T urea project at Lunan Fertilizer Plant; in April 2007, it also signed four Sinopec Wuhan refining projects with 5 million T/year. The main device provides the control system. The above breakthrough will effectively break the monopoly of foreign companies in the national key projects for important instrumentation, control devices and automation systems.

In the second half of the year, the growth rate will slowly decline. In the second half of the year, the instrumentation industry will continue to trend for the first half of the year. Demand, production and sales are still at high levels, but the increase will slow down. It is expected that the growth rate of production and sales will be slightly higher than the previous year or basically the same. Due to the relatively indirect and lagging response of the instrumentation industry to the macroeconomics, some product growth will fall back to next year. In the second half of the year, there will be the following characteristics:

Industrial automation instrumentation and control devices and environmental monitoring and analysis instruments have the fastest growth, and other instruments and instruments will not change their stable growth trend. In the country's implementation of circular economy, environmental protection, emission reduction, high-efficiency, energy saving, "large pressure small" and other policies and measures, thermal power, metallurgy, building materials and other medium-sized devices and "five small businesses" and other demand for instruments will be significantly reduced. The large-scale, complex and new application areas of industrial devices and the demand for their devices will cause domestic companies to face many problems such as product technology level, application adaptability, and entry barriers. Foreign companies have comparative advantages and will have an impact on the market landscape. .

There are two different situations in which corporate profits are changing. On the one hand, due to the increase in proficiency in production and the increase in the technological content of products, some companies increase their labor productivity and increase their profit margins. On the other hand, due to rising raw material prices, labor costs, and utility costs. , exchange rate changes and other reasons, a lot of product costs rise, the production capacity of middle and low-end products in domestic companies, middle-to-high-end products in foreign-funded enterprises and foreign and domestic companies in the increasingly fierce price competition, some companies have profit There are signs of decline.

Instruments and meters broke through major projects: “The rapid growth of exports and the small increase in imports” will not change in the second half of the year. From the high growth of exports that has lasted for many years, the basis is the improvement of the technological level and the acceleration of industrial development. Another important factor this year is the company's response to the macroeconomic situation. Both foreign-funded enterprises and competitive enterprises in China are using existing facilities to increase their export intensity in order to cope with the possible slowdown in the domestic economy. In the first half of the year, the export value of goods accounted for 28.6% of the total industrial output value, a year-on-year increase of 41.3%. In fact, the industry-wide growth rate of the industry was higher than that of the same period last year mainly due to export growth. The growth rate in the domestic market was basically the same. In exports, the increase in commissioned foreign capital production is evident. Due to the wide disparity between the bases of import and export, the import and export deficit will still be as high as US$8 billion, but this year may be the first year since China’s reform and opening up to reduce the deficit in import and export of instrumentation.

Speaking of breakthroughs in major projects in China's instrumentation industry, Yan Jiacheng vividly described it as "in the midst of difficulties," and the promotion and improvement of instrumentation has been on the agenda. The application of important instrumentation and control systems in major projects will be from point to point. Products that break through will be expanded from single DCS types to other important products, from single products to wider areas and more complex devices, and breakthrough products have been promoted. Further improvement of its level will be the focus of work in the second half of the year.